in our state of tennessee 30 years ago the state paid 70% of the costs going to the university of tennessee. today at page 30 and medicaid is the chief culprit. now everyone knows this. the president's own debt convention has told him this and suggested a way to deal with it. 40 or 50 of us on both sides of the aisle have been working together and having dinner together and writing bills together trying to come up with plans to do it or go senator corker my colleague from tennessee has developed a bill which i'm his prime co-sponsor which says over the next 10 years we have found a way to strengthen medicare and other entitlements by reducing the growth in spending. we understand this. we passed a budget control act a couple of years ago and people said they didn't like it. it wasn't so bad because it took 39% of the budget which is all of our discretionary spending. this is national defense national parks national labs. is going up about the rate of inflation and this is before we get to the so-called sequester. but what about the rest of the budget? that is the automatic stuff we don't ev